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Churchill said, those who failed to learn from history are
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condemned to repeat it. Kevin helen n believes that certainly
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applies to business. Welcome to Winning Business Radio here at
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and now your host, Kevin Helena.
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Thanks everybody for joining in again today. I am Kevin
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Hallanan and welcome back to Winning Business TV and Radio
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You're familiar with YouTube.
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IHeartRadio, Spotify, Apple, pretty much wherever you listen to your
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favorite podcasts. The mission of this show, Winning Business radio
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and TV, as regular viewers and listeners know, is to
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offer insights and advice to help people avoid the mistakes
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of others, right to learn best practices, the how tos,
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the what to's, the what not tos, to be challenged
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and to be hopefully inspired by the successes of others.
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Those are the consultants, coaches, advisors, authors, founders and owners, entrepreneurs,
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people with expertise. But you know, virtually every successful person
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I've ever had a chance to talk to has had
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some form of failure in their lives and careers. So
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while we all have to get get our knees skinned
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once in a while, I always say I'm driven to
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keep those scrapes from needing major surgery. Let's endeavor to
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learn from history so we don't repeat it. I've spent
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the better part of my career equipping businesses to grow
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from solopreneurs to small and medium sized companies all the
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way up to the fortune fifty. I've seen some of
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those companies win, and to varying great degrees, I've seen
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some fail I've had the opportunity to rub elbows with
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some of the highest performing people around and with some
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folks who probably should have found other professions. In my
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own businesses, I've had lots of success, but some failures too.
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I like to think I've learned a lot from those experiences.
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So every week I say this, you'll hear from me
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my opinions and insights, because anybody who knows me will
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tell you that I sometimes have a hard time being
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quiet Tim. But more importantly, together we'll hear from experts,
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those consultants, coaches, advisors, authors, founders and owners entrepreneurs today
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is an attorney. In fact, my guest is Tim Kannely,
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employment law attorney and shareholder of Fully and Fully PC.
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Here's his bio erani.
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Tim Knneely has practiced law since nineteen ninety four, first
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with the firm of Healy and Healy PC and with
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Folly and Folly PC since two thousand and eight. Tim's
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been a litigator his entire career. His practice involves the
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representation of clients in matters involving employment and labor law,
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data security and personal information protection, insurance contracts, and litigation attorney,
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Cannely has successfully resolved hundreds of cases in the state
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and federal courts. At the MCAD that's the Mass Mass
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Council against Discriminated YEA Hello, Mass Council Against Discrimination, at
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the EEOC, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and before other
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administrative agencies. He's negotiated, draft and enforced a multiple of
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employment and business contracts for firm clients. Tim is a
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past president of the Tritown Chamber of Commerce in Mansfield.
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That's from twenty fourteen to twenty sixteen. He's currently a
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member of its Board of Directors. He was vice president
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of the Rotary Club of Foxborough in twenty sixteen and
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is a member of Excuse Me Form members, former member
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of the Economic Development Committee and of the Advisory Committee
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for the Town of Foxborough, Massachusetts. His affiliations include the
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US Supreme Court in two thousand and two, the United
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States District Court as of ninety five, and he's a
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member of the Mass Bars of ninety three, the Kentucky
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Bar as of twenty three, in the Pennsylvania State Bars
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of twenty fifteen. Tim earned his undergraduate degree at the
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College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass in nineteen
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ninety his law degree at the Suffolk University Law School, Boston,
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Mass in nineteen ninety three. Tim and his wife Kimberly,
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reside in Foxborough, Mass. They have a daughter, Shannon, who's nineteen,
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a son, Sullivan, who's eighteen. They have a dog named Tucker.
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Tim. Welcome to Winning Business Radio. Appreciate you being here.
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Thank you, Kevin. Glad to be here.
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So let's jump right in. Tell us a bit about
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your family. Start with the lovely Kimberly.
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Well, my wife is also a lawyer by trade, but
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does not wisely does not practice. He uh moved on
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to bigger and better things and works for Morgan Stanley.
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And I, as I mentioned, I have a daughter, Shannon,
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she's a sophomore at the University of Alabama.
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And uh, then win against Georgia, right.
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Very excited. Yes, she called us some elations, so it
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was it was a big night.
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My buddy from Georgia is not so he's a Tim also,
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he's not so happy right now?
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Yeah, win them all right? And then my son is
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a freshman at the University of New Hampshire.
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And what are they studying.
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My daughter is studying criminal psychology, she has an interest
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in joining the federal government in a law enforcement capacity.
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And my son is studying finance.
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Very good.
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And you have a dog named Tucker. Growing up, our
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our cocker spaniel was Tucker. So what kind of dog
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is Tucker.
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It's a Boston Terrier. I'm very active.
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That's very great. That's a cool break.
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All right.
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So tell us where you grew up.
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I grew up in Canton, Massachusetts.
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Uh.
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Yeah, we won't get into that. But Canton's in the
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news a lot lately. Dot dot dot. We won't get
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into that. Everybody in the country knows where Canton, Massachusetts
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is now.
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I know, yeah, I know.
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When I when I lived there, I thought it was nowhere,
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but I know it's become someplace.
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So tell us about that upbring. What was I like
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to grow up in Canton?
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So it was, you know, it's a small town. Primarily
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I went to private schools, so I didn't really go
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to the public schools in town. I ended up going
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to high school in Dorchester, Massachusetts, at Boston College High School,
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so I didn't get the full Canton experience. But you know,
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it was a nice place to live. People were friendly
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back then. I can't speak for it now. I haven't
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lived there and you know, thirty plus years, so it
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seems like it's become a different place than where I
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grew up.
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So we have one son, we have four of ours.
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We have four kids. All four went to private You've
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probably heard this before. All four went to private school.
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One of them went to Latin's Boston Latin School. I
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think you had a really more diverse upbringing. You saw more.
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You're maybe more street smart, more savvy, having gone to
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BC High in Dorchester, so I think you benefited from that,
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at least that's my guess. But at BC how you
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played football, ran track, and you're on the student council.
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Yes, yeah, I did, and it was a great choice.
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Originally didn't want to go there. It was kind of
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far from home and I didn't know very many people
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that were going there. But I'm really glad that I did.
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It was an exceptional school and I did get to
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meet a wide variety of people, learned how to travel
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on the train and you know, navigate the big city, right,
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So it was it was a great experience for me.
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I'm glad I did it.
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And when did you know or maybe I don't know.
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I won't even editorialized. You got a Bachelor's of Arts
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in English. So two questions, when did you know you
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wanted a major in English? And what made you choose
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holy Cross?
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Well? I had a cousin who was four years older
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than me who went to Holy Cross raved about it,
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and I just went out there and visited and really
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liked it. It was a beautiful campus with you know,
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fighting environment, and it was good academic school. I was
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fortunate to get in there, and you know, pretty much
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was my first choice coming out out of high school.
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Although x I should say I didn't want to go
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to Notre Dame but got waitlisted.
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So would you have been blackballed?
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I know that PC High is not really affiliated with
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Boston College, but would you have been blackballed because there's
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such a rivalry between Holy Cross and PC.
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Back then? Probably?
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Yeah. Yeah.
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My freshman year was the last time we played Boston
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College in a competitive football game.
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So that's yeah. I would say the word competitive is
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sadly true. Let's see, so you played all this is interesting.
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You played rugby, college club rugby and at Trimurial hockey.
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Tell us about those experiences at college.
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So I'd never heard of rugby before, and I went
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to my first rugby practice not knowing anything about it.
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I got invited by some friends who knew that I
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had played football in high school and I just fell
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in love with it. It was just a fun game
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with a lot of the athletic requirements that I had
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learned over the years about, you know, tackling and handling
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the ball, and it was very similar to football in
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that respect, and I just loved it. It was really
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a lot of fun and it was competitive. We had
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a really good team, and we got to travel the world.
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I went to Ireland, I went to England, I went
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to the Bahamas. I got to play, you know, in
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other parts of the country. It was great and really
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helped me to learn about other cultures that I probably
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wouldn't have learned about if I hadn't taken up the sport.
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And then just I still watch it on TV now.
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I love it.
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Someday you'll have to explain the rules to me. I know,
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I know, there's whatever. It's a little confusing if you
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don't know what you're doing and hockey you still play hockey.
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Right, Yeah, And I may have to hang it out.
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The hip is starting to really bother. Oh yeah, yeah,
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I've been playing hockey, uh for a long time.
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I started skating at well five years old, and yeah,
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I got into intramurals and at holy Cross because I
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was working as the zamboni driver at the hockey rink.
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It's got to be the best job. I didn't know that.
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It was a great job. I really I really loved it,
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and you know, I was up there all the time,
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and I just figured, all right, well play some inner
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murals while I'm working in between shifts and things. And
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then I took over the program and I ran the
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intramural pro for two years. It was great, and then
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I just kept playing. I played in men's leagues after
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after college, right up until you know, in competitive games
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until about five six years ago. And now I just
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periodically skate with some friends. But I you know, I
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love it and I wish I could do more of it.
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But the body isn't cooperating as much as it used to.
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So we all know that story. So, Tim, when did
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you know you wanted to practice law and why did
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you choose Suffolk?
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Okay, Well, so at Boston College High School, I took
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a business law class and the teacher told me that
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I had an aptitude for the law, so that piqued
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my interest. My cousin that I told you about before
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that went the Holy Cross. He ended up going to
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law school and is a lawyer. Now, my uncle was
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a lawyer, my cousin is a lawyer, my other cousin's
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a lawyer, and so it just was part of the family,
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and so I just was introduced to it at an
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early age. And my dad really wanted to go to
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law school, but unfortunately I couldn't afford it and didn't go.
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Became a probation officer instead. So you know, it's something
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that I thought would make him proud of me, which
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I think it did, and I just wanted to do it,
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probably right out of high school. I took English in
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college because I wanted to be a good writer and
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articulate and thought that was a good choice for law school.
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And I chose Suffolk frankly because it was a local school.
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I knew I wanted to live and work around here,